Way Back When’sday # 7

Welcome back to another Way Back When’sday. Today we’re going to have a look at some Carnevale!

I backed Carnevale many years ago when TTcombat picked up the game. I had played the older edition once when trying out new games with a friend and one thing that immediately grasped us was how cinematic it played. You want to jump from roof to roof and stab someone? Go for it! Want to run up a wall? Excellent!

The black spectre…totally not covered in dust!

I decided to opt in for the Patricians faction first. The Black spectre miniature alone caught my eye a ssuch a great design. And along side this, the noble look of the general faction sold it to me.

As this was also in the timeframe I was purchasing two factions, just in case, I also picked up the Gifted. Now these worked in double as they also are kind of the “mercenary” style of faction. It means I can run them either with the Patricians I had already picked up, but could also run them seperately. Win-win.

Unfortunately though, I haven’t yet found the time (amongst other games being played and there not being enough time in a day) to get them to the table. I really do want to play this game though! If I had enough terrain, as I truly believe this is one of those games that will benefit so heavily from a well terrained board, I would in a heartbeat have some games of this on my own even.

Maybe this is the next project? Who am I kidding… I have too many projects!

Until next time 🙂

Monday Night Bloodbowl

Monday Night is Bloodbowl Night!

Or well…it was. It’s been a moment since I have played consistent Bloodbowl. Honestly, with the announcement of a new edition, there’s been less enthusiasm from me to get a game of bloodbowl going, I may as well wait for the new edition.

But one things for sure, I am excited for those Tomb Kings!

But what of current games? Theres a new league started recently. I have signed up for it, bringing back the Pocket monster team for another outing (will Black Shuck finally meet his end this season!?) And brought out another rookie team; Papa Nurgle’s Pathogents!

Firstly, I don’t like Nurgle. I don’t really like the aesthetic of Nurgle in any iteration it has been brought out in, but they have staying power. I was suggested to at least try them out because they’re much hardier than the other teams I tend to field and I have an amazing ability to just be absolutely crushed in bloodbowl. The dice tend to not stay on my side for longer than a half.

While I don’t think I’ll follow every game this season with the Nurgle, I certainly may give some updates time to time of how they’re fairing for me. So far I’ve had them on the table once, being completely overrun by Elves losing 3-0. Nothing too bad in terms of damage, though one Rotter died in the process. I just need to grind down some teams and gain some SPP and maybe the team could get more fun… Maybe in my game tonight against the orcs…?

Until next time!

Way back When’s Day #4

Back to showing off some old miniatures! These ones aren’t so old but aren’t posted anywhere. I figured it’s time to show off my Old world Tomb Kings.

Tomb kings receive a thrashing at the hands of some wood elves

Tomb kings were the first army I picked up way back in 2003 and my first foray into wargaming proper. I remember the excitement of deciding which army I wanted to collect then seeing these incredible looking new egyptian themed skeletons. I immediately picked up an army box and got to work on building them.

Not much survives of these original models I had, having sold them on after warhammer fantasy was killed off but when I saw they intended to bring them back as the poster boys of The old world, it was a given that I needed to get back into it.

As much as I have heard that the new dragon is a love it or hate it model, I certainly think it works as an amazing centrepiece model for the army, and provides the otherwise fragile heirophant a decent spot.

I opted to go for the classic red weapons, to give the army that classic look. Something I was never too interested in doing first time around was the painting. This time however, I managed to get a lot of it batch painted, focusing on completing all the bone in one go before picking out the individual colours. Especially on the core skeletons. I think they came out okay.

I still have plenty to paint. There is always more skeletons. That will always be the problem with undead armies. Skeletons are never too expensive so you can always have a lot of them.

Until next time 🙂

To start starting proper

It’s been a minute.

I keep meaning to get things going but then lose the inspiration to do so. So new goal is to try keep things consistent, keep the motivation to work on things.

And my solution lately has been to focus on games with solo gaming options.

Right now my attention is fully gripped with Black Seas.

Why? Well, there are solo scenarios! This certainly helps for sure but I do think the main reason lies in the fact that I have found boat games to be incredibly fun (Dystopian wars, Firestorm armada) there’s something about their mechanics that always grants a fun time.

Stay tuned, as I fully intend to get a fully painted fleet finished soon, and then it’s just a matter of recording a game!

Way back When’sday #3

So this one is a more recent “way back when” I suppose. When I got full in to my age of sigmar swing, buying Fyreslayers, and then the Kharadron overlords; I began looking at various models that weren’t too costly that helped me plug the point gap to make a nice even 1000 point army. And I found one.

The Gyrocopter/Gyrobomber kit was just the right fit. Easy to build so that both options could be used, and only 80/90 points too! And considering I picked it up at a reasonable price too it was a win win situation all around.

Considering I never used to like dwarf models, I really have too many of them now…

Gyro bomber (Ill finish painting this variation one day…)

Monday’s Miniature #3 …But it’s Tuesday?

So I had planned for this to go up yesterday, but then I thought why rush this when I can add more content? So I did.

For today’s post, I decided to upload some of my collection of the Privateer Press Minicrate models ( https://www.mini-crate.com) that I have so far painted up. I’ve collected these from the first box, and boy are they good fun! Such variety with each model, and each one I’ve felt is generally an improvement on the original model it was based off of.

Seeker Of Silence (Sylys Wyshnalyrr), Ahes to Ashlynn (Ashlynn d’Elyse), Runeball Wizard (Gun mage captain adept),

The geist of Christmas yet to come (Feralgeist)

Way back when’sday #2

Back when Warmachine had been enough of a dominant game on the gaming tables of my local group, we had begun to look for a game to give a bit of variation and the game we started up was Malifaux. The card mechanic was such an interesting change from dice and the models looked wonderful. Well they did, but then along came the second edition, and oh boy was I wrong. THESE models looked wonderful. So naturally I bought a lot of them. At the time I owned a huge portion of the Arcanist faction. I’ve since then downsized a bit, but I still have a fair few of them, and these are probably some of my favourites; Kaeris’ crew:

Monday’s Miniature #2

So for this weeks miniature it’s not a finished piece but the one I am currently working on.

When I first started playing Warhammer back in the day, I started with a Tomb king army. Soon after, when I started to get in to the game more, I branched out (pun wholly intended) into Wood elves.

While I never really got to own the model back then, the old Wood elf dragon with the Sisters of twilight was one of my favourite models of the time. So when Games workshop quite recently put it up for made to order release, I snatched it up quite quickly. Even if it won’t go with any of my current forces…. Guess maybe I need to start Sylvaneth?

Way back When’sday #1

For my Wednesday posts, I’ll be posting up painted models that weren’t recent, as I have plenty of those too! So here’s Kommander Harkevich. I painted it some years ago when I was still playing Warmachine fairly actively (Though I can’t really say I used this model an awful lot). I was pretty happy with how he turned out though, having previously not been a huge fan of the model, it became one of my most proud Khador pieces.

Monday’s Miniature #1

For the first piece of miniature Monday it’s my centrepiece model for my Kharadron Overlord arny (or as I commonly refer to them as; Sky Dwarves) the Arkanaut frigate.